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Scarfantoni, Joannis Jacobi: Four works on Cannon law and practices. First edition, 1723. Bound in modern calf with florets, gilt lettering a very handsome set of bindings. Interior some browning and occasionally heavy but still very readable. First part: Lcubrationes, [2,]blank, [1]title, +3, ++4, A-I4, K-T4, V-Z4: Second part: Decisiones, *4, [2], A-I4, K-T4, V- Z4, Aa-Ii4, Kk-Tt4, [2], [2]blank: Third Part: Pars Secundi, Liber tertius: [2]blank, [1]title, +3, [3], A-I4, K-T4, V-Z4, Aa-Cc4, Dd6,*: Fourth Part: Decisiones Sacrae Rotae Romanae: *6, A-I4, K-T4, V-Z4, Aa-Ii4, Kk-Pp4, [2]blank. All Printed by: Lucae; MDCCXXIII (1723), Ex Typographia Leonardi Venturini De Superiorum Licentia.
Joannis Jacobi Scarfantoni:
One of the many who participated in Cannons and the writing of Cannons. This work as a first large 4to edition (folio) is years of work by religious scholars and this reference compendium is an invaluable resource to theological researchers. An ecclesiastical person (Lat. Canonicus), a… Read More

Hooker, Richard. (1554?-1600) Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie. Eight Bookes. London: by Richard Bishop and are to be sold by George Lathum, 1638. Folio, 11.4 x 7.6 in. Seventh edition. Fourth complete edition. A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Hhh6, Iii8. This copy is bound in modern full calf.
Richard Hooker:
"The adventures of this text [The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity] are among the strangest in literary history. The first four books were published in March 1593. The fifth followed in December 1597. In 1604 Dr. Spenser, President of Corpus Christi, Oxford, in a new edition of the Polity, stated that Hooker had finished the three further books he intended: that certain persons had rifled Hooker's study after his death, abstracted the fair copies and left only 'unperfect and mangled draughts;' from which draughts, nevertheless, 'there is a purpose' of publishing the best text now possible. After this, nearly forty years of silence. Then in 1648 we have an edition containing Books VI and… Read More